Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-25


tenants have decided to purchase their
holdings under the Land act at fourteen
wears, judicial rent, the landlord canceling
| all arrears except for the current year, and
| these VIII be reduced.
! MEDICAL returns show that 40, COO persons
| died from cholera in the Northwest pro-
| vinces of India during June and July.
An international bakery exhibition has
been opened at Dresden by the King and
| Queen of Saxony.
| THE strike of the goncoliers of Venice
| ended on the 18th.
| ONE thousand houses were destroyed by
a fire which ravaged Scutari, opposite Con-
| stantinople. on the 18TH
THE third division engineers on the Next
can Central went on strike on the 10Th.
The three divisions now out represent $50
| miles or track Passenger trains were run
| ming on two divisions of the road.
| RICHARD SEAMAN SCOTT, who absconded
with $3.50, 600 that belonged to the Manhat-
! tan Bank, of which he had been an en-
| ploye in 1885, has made confession before
| Consul General Waller at London The
confession implicated lawyer named John
R Dunn, who got the money, and he was
| arrested at New York on the 10th.
Two dynamite cartridges were exploded
| on the West Clare railway bridge at Ennis,
| Ireland. on the 10th. No serious damage
| was done. Two other cartridges were found
1 on the Dr1QR0, WHICH QdU IdIleQ W
The town hall at Crusheen, County Clare,
was fired the same day, but no damage was
done.
A HURRICANE in the vicinity of Bordeaux,
| France, recently destroyed an enormous
| amount OF property. The storm caused the
collision at Arcachon of two excursion
| trains and several cars were wrecked and
seventeen persons were injured.
MEIER GOLDSCHMIDT, the Danish poet.
novelist and journalist dead. aged SlXtV-
eight.
THE Prussian Bundesratn has authorized
the raising of loan of 100000 marks to
allow the Government to work the alcohol
monopoly.
THE German Government has permitted
the reopening of the Franciscan convent at
Neustadt, Silesia.
THE Canadian Pacific has taken steps in
the valley of the Red river, in Manitoba, to
shut out the proposed Red River Valley
road. A conflict between the forces of the
two lines is feared.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar has been re-
ceived at the French Foreign Office which
says that Henry M. Stanley, the explorer,
has been massacred by natives after hav-
ing been deserted by his escort. The dis
patch was dlscredited in London.
AT the Limerick Qreland) sessions on
the 18th three persons were sentenced I'M
der the Crimes act, two of them to six
months Imprisonment and one to four
months, for resisting the sheriff.
THE Journal de st. Petersburg says the Rus
sian Embassy at Constantinople has handed
to the Porte protest against Ferdinand's
occupancy of the Bulgarian throne. 1t de-
clares that he has been guilty of an auda-
ciOus attempt against the rights of the
powers.
The French Consuls in Bulgaria have
been instructed to discontinue business re-
lations with the Government.
THE BOerSen Zeitung, of Berlin, contradicts
the recent report that the Krupp firm
would be converted INTO a joint stock COM
pany.
IN Catania, Italy, on the 18th five new
cases of cholera and twenty-six deaths were
reported, and in Palermo fourteen new
cases and ten deaths.
CHARLES PAGE, who swindled the Jacques
Cartier Bank, of Montreal, out of $25, 000
has been arrested at Versailles, Quebec,
about eighteen miles from the border line.
All the money was found in his possesS
sion.
w. E. ELLIOTT & Co., dealers in lubricat-
ing oils. Montreal, Can, have assigned,
with $50, 600 liabilities.
THE British Cabinet has decided to hold
an autumn session of Parliament.
IN the village of Mirebeausur-BeZe,i in the
Department of Cote dor, France, a riot
occurred the other day over the introduce
ton of Italian workmen, the villagers re-
senting this and attacking the men, killing
one and wounding five others.
FEARS were expressed in Ounalaska con.
corning the safety of the revenue cutter
Bear. The Bear was one of the Greedy re-
lief ships.
THE LATEST.
THE British Government has proclaimed
the Irish National League under the Crimes
act.
PROF. SPENCER F. BAIRD, of the Fish
Com mission, died at Woods Holl, Mass, on
the 18th.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August II numbered for